From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 7 9:27:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from inetminas.estaminas.com.br (inetminas.estaminas.com.br [200.251.191.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18FE537B62D for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 09:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pamplona@uai.com.br) Received: from w95-0sr2 (nas5-38.estaminas.com.br [200.243.219.102]) by inetminas.estaminas.com.br (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA15843 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 13:27:09 -0300 (GMT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000507132844.007a8c30@uai.com.br> X-Sender: pamplona@uai.com.br (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 13:28:44 -0300 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Gustavo Pamplona Subject: Is there a way to install FreeBSD without "Probbing Devices" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, guys, Sadly, I posted to FreeBSD-Questions, but nobody answered me. And I think Hackers is the best choice. (I think is necessary to hack the sysinstall program to do this) I have memory problems, but my other systems, Windows 95 and NT worked without problems, and my only problem is with FreeBSD. I already installed Linux, did not have any trouble, with the exception of the "bus error", All OK! I also knew FreeBSD put a lot of stress on the memory. But how I got installed Linux on my machine. I know it the FreeBSD Installation Program is like a RAMDISK image (Linux), in other words, the Installation Program is a mini FreeBSD system, with the tools and utilities necessary for Installation. But, What I need is only a thing, Is there a way to hack the 'sysinstall' in other system like linux, to when I put the Boot floppy and followed by MFS root, the 'sysinstall' jump over to the main part of the installation. Or anybody can send to me a "sysinstall" without "Probbing Devices" screen ? I 'd like to thank for who send me? (If exist one, of course, or still a hacked copy) Or there is a way to install FreeBSD without sysintall. Well, I can install a Linux System with a simple bootdisk and a shell, containing 'fdisk, mkfs, mount.ext2fs mount.msdos or mount.vfat and mount.iso9660, tar and gzip. Example: In this way, I partition my HardDisk with the decimal code of 165, 0xA5 or BSD/386 and following create at less the root and swap slices. And make a new UFS filesystem and unpack the binnary distribution on the FileSystes, create the necessary /dev files for access the new partition, set up my kernel with rdev. and finnally install a new boot manager. I tried to compile the fdisk and newfs into my Debian Linux 2.1 system. I suscessfulled compiled fdisk, Currently it is working within Debian, but the newfs not. (I was not using iBCS - Intel Binnary Compatibility System) How I saw to Linux cannot a tool for create the UFS filesystem, and I'm desesperate, I need to install a FreeBSD. And I have no enough money for change my memory modules. Thanx for all []'s --------------------------------------------- Gustavo Pamplona - pamplona@uai.com.br Linux User: 137471 - FreeBSD User: FBSD042237 Linux Slackware 7.0 | FreeBSD 3.2 Release --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message